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Originally Posted by Sainters7
There seems to be a misunderstanding regarding PD days. Students get the day off, teachers don't. They have to go to conferences, or sometimes meet with other teachers who teach the same subject at a designated school and look at previous year's final exams to see how they can be improved, etc.. From the teachers I've talked to, they'd rather just be teaching that day, instead of PD stuff.
Definitely a solid career with great benefits, and a lot more security in lean times than the private sector. There's just way more extracurricular/prep stuff you gotta do than most realize it seems, especially your first few years in the profession. Teacher burnout is a real thing, the amount of people who leave the field within the first 3-5 years is high.
Very rewarding career, but it's definitely not for everybody.
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Of course that burnout has little to do with the teaching and more to do with the administration and dealing with that aspect.
I briefly considered teaching as a career, but it was more as a 'if nothing else works, I could always do that', which I realized was a bad idea because the intentions were just wrong. I personally feel like the education system needs a significant overhaul. There is no way that teachers are putting in 9.1 hours a day, despite being paid for that. Seemingly every school closes at noon Friday, for starters. Then you consider that teachers would be working say from 8-6 the other days to make that work, and it's just not happening.
Do some teachers work those hours? Sure. But the other impactful point is that teachers have prep time during the day as well. So they have to do some things before and after school, but they also have a chance to do some things during the day as well. So to suggest that all teachers are near that 9-10 hour day average is ridiculous.
I also think that if people think that being a teacher is so amazing though, go get a degree and teach. I decided that while summers off to go travel and fishing would be awesome, you have to be a certain kind of person and have a certain dedication to be a teacher.